Audit Team Leader at KKCO East Africa

•  Accountancy
• Understand all the IFRS and IFRS for SMEs and continue to develop knowledge and skill in the interpretation of management information.  Keep up to date on accounts disclosure requirements.
• Develop specialists knowledge according to own portfolio.
• Understand special accounting requirements of those clients for which the ATL is responsible e.g. insurance companies.
• Audit Administration
• Ensure that all audits are planned, controlled, reviewed and completed to the firm’s standards, to the satisfaction of the client and within time and budget: the review of the work of the field staff being ATL’s single most important tasks.  Keep the partner and field staff informed of progress and problems.  Encourage partner contact with client.  Monitor costs.
• Ensure prompt billing and debt collection.
• Follow up/review points raised in the management letter of previous years and the current year’s draft management letter.  Be proficient at report writing.
• Understand what a servant leader needs to do to achieve the task, build the team, develop and empower others.
• Be familiar with the concepts of leadership and develop skills in training, briefing and delegating, target setting, problem solving, assessing staff performance and counselling.
• On certain pre-selected assignments operate at manager level and directly represent the assignment partner.
• Liaise with partners for specialist professional advise.
• Review/draft audit reports.
• Provide to audit team – frequent, timely and meaningful feedback (written or verbal), thereby modelling behaviour to others.  Manage staff performance appraisals.
• Ensure CCH Pro Audit risk planning, completion and review areas are well covered.
• Quality Control
• Understand the concept of ISQM 1 & 2 - Audit Quality Control, ISAs and be responsible for ensuring compliance in all audit assignments.
• Practice Development
• Adopt a commercial approach to auditing.
• Ensure quality service improvement and delivery and thus promote the firms profile.
• Identify issues that clients may not recognise, and recommend (at a fee) innovative solutions that are appropriate to clients business/regulatory environment.
• Identify potential new clients, market our services and be responsible for acquisition of new business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting from a recognized university.
• CPA / ACCA Advanced level
• Good communication skills